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Re^2: Calling Windows Batch from Perl, double-quote appearing out of nowhere

by rovf (Priest)
on Nov 09, 2012 at 15:40 UTC ( [id://1003166]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Calling Windows Batch from Perl, double-quote appearing out of nowhere
in thread Calling Windows Batch from Perl, double-quote appearing out of nowhere

Indeed, this works too! (big surprise!)

UPDATE: Sorry, responded to quickly. No, it doesn't work. The %% is a notion to escape the percent character, so instead of interpolating the 2nd argument, it just inserts a literal percent sign...

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Re^3: Calling Windows Batch from Perl, double-quote appearing out of nowhere
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 09, 2012 at 15:49 UTC

    not really :) you're using cmd to call cmd and the escaping is botched -- double interpolation

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